Game-cards



(No Model.)

M. BRADLEY.

GAME CARDS.

Patented Se at. 13,1881.

SUNNYVITALY N. PETERS. mulu-Limn nphor. Washington. 0.0.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILTON BRADLEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME-CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,863, datedSeptember 13, 1881.

Application filed June 18, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MILTON BRADLEY, a. citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Game-Cards,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of cards for games, which areornamented with special designs which areincomplete except when placedby the side of a card bearing that part of the figure or figures whichis lacking to complete the said design, the object being to providenovel cards for social games; and said invention consists in so formingthe designs on the Various cards that all the cards of one group, whenproperly placed side by side, will form one complete design or picture.

Games of this nature-such as Old Maid, for instance-as usually playedconsist of a set of cards in duplicate-that is, two alike of severalkinds, and one odd card, usually bearing upon its face a picture of anold maid. The object of said game is to group pairs of cards together,which are thenlaid away, and the unfortunate player having the odd cardleft in his hand is declared Old Maid. Heretofore the picture on eachcard has had no special reference to the game, any

0 design being used, and each being complete in itself.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figures 1, 2, and 3represent gamecards constructed and ornamented according to myinvention. Figs. 1 and 2 represent differently-ornamented cards, whichare divided into two equal parts on the line 00,- and Fig. 3 illustratesa card with a still different ornamentation, divided into three equalparts, on the lines 0 0.

It will be observed that the two parts of one card and the three partsof another, as in Fig. 3, are of uniform size, and may all beindiscriminatel y mingled together in a pack, wherein nothing visible onthe edges or backs thereof will distinguish one from the other. Thussaid pack of cards would consist of several series of two or three ormore cards,each series constitutinga special design, and each of whichseries, or some of them, in the progress of the gamemust be completed inthe hand of aplayer to constitute such player a winner. I

What I claim as my invention is The within-described improvedgame-cards, consisting of a number of the equal-sized sections ofseveral larger individual cards, each of said sections having upon itsface side complete and incomplete figures of living and other objects,which sections, when assembled to reform said individual cards, showupon their united faces a complete picture representing a diversity ofsaid living and other objects, substantially as set forth.

MILTON BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

GEORGE H. IRELAND, J. A. BOLEN.

